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• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle384–322 BC

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• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

  Confucius551–479 BC

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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